The Networking forum does not save the sort order of the threads.Several times I've set it to descending "Last post by" to see the threads with the newest posts first. When I come back to the forum it is sorted on Title. This appears to be the only forum acting this way.

Joe

This should be fixed now for all forums; for some strange reason that was the default sort order and field for most forums.

1. The icon for read posts is a closed envelope and the icon for unread posts is an open envelope. Surely that's back to front?
It would also be nice to have the unread envelope a brighter colour to make it even easier to pick out.

We are collecting the items you are reporting and are working to continue updating the Lounge.

@mccornwall, the issue you are experiencing should be resolved now.

Thank you. Can you tell me what you did? I'd like to relay the fix to the forum admins over at bikeforums.net so their site works correctly as well. I'll check it out over the next few days as unread posts accumulate.

1. The icon for read posts is a closed envelope and the icon for unread posts is an open envelope. Surely that's back to front?
It would also be nice to have the unread envelope a brighter colour to make it even easier to pick out.

2. I can't see the button to mark all posts read. Is it missing?

cheers, Paul

For issue #1, over at bikeforums they changed the envelope to a little cyclist icon and unread ones had a green plus sign superimposed over it. Very easy to pick out on the page...

1. The icon for read posts is a closed envelope and the icon for unread posts is an open envelope. Surely that's back to front?
It would also be nice to have the unread envelope a brighter colour to make it even easier to pick out.

Those of us with vision deficiency (mine's with colours, as is around 10% of potential Lounge readers) would certainly prefer some obvious options to change the colour schemes.

Thank you. Can you tell me what you did? I'd like to relay the fix to the forum admins over at bikeforums.net so their site works correctly as well. I'll check it out over the next few days as unread posts accumulate.

In vBulletin there is an option for tracking unread posts. The default method is via a cookie on the user's system and this is what results in the behavior you see. The other two options store the read threads in the database on a per user basis. This is more intensive but for a forum this size it shouldn't have an impact. For our much larger communities this is another story.